Sourcing A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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How might manufacturers make better use of 3PL brainpower? How effective are your organizations recruitment, talent development and career progression initiatives? Is it cost effective to collect and report the data? Do utilities have a capital bias under cost-of-service regulation? Do the product requirements, specifications, and capabilities conform to industry standards?
This astounding Sourcing self-assessment will make you the trusted Sourcing domain master by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Sourcing challenge.
How do I reduce the effort in the Sourcing work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Sourcing task and that every Sourcing outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Sourcing costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Sourcing advice instantly with structured going-forward plans?
There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Sourcing essentials are covered, from every angle: the Sourcing self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Sourcing outcomes are achieved.
Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Sourcing practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Sourcing are maximized with professional results.
Your purchase includes access details to the Sourcing self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
- The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
- The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
- In-depth and specific Sourcing Checklists
- Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
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Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
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Sourcing A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Sourcing
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Sourcing best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.
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About The Art of Service
The Art of Service, Business Process Architects since 2000, is dedicated to helping stakeholders achieve excellence.
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a stakeholders challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions.
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Included Resources - how to access
Included with your purchase of the book is the Sourcing Self-Assessment Spreadsheet Dashboard which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas and auto-generates insights, graphs, and project RACI planning - all with examples to get you started right away.
How? Simply send an email to
access@theartofservice.com
with this books’ title in the subject to get the Sourcing Self Assessment Tool right away.
You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
•The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
•The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic
•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
Get it now- you will be glad you did - do it now, before you forget.
Send an email to access@theartofservice.com with this books’ title in the subject to get the Sourcing Self Assessment Tool right away.
Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Sourcing, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Sourcing have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Sourcing, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Sourcing initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Sourcing Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Sourcing Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Sourcing areas need attention.
Sourcing
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Sourcing
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Included Resources - how to access7
Purpose of this Self-Assessment9
How to use the Self-Assessment10
Sourcing
Scorecard Example12
Sourcing
Scorecard13
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:14
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:23
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:36
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:50
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:66
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:81
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:93
Sourcing and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:130
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Sourcing131
1.1 Project Charter: Sourcing133
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Sourcing135
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Sourcing136
2.0 Planning Process Group: Sourcing138
2.1 Project Management Plan: Sourcing140
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Sourcing142
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Sourcing144
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Sourcing146
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Sourcing148
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Sourcing150
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Sourcing152
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Sourcing154
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Sourcing156
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Sourcing158
2.11 Activity List: Sourcing160
2.12 Activity Attributes: Sourcing162
2.13 Milestone List: Sourcing164
2.14 Network Diagram: Sourcing166
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Sourcing168
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Sourcing169
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Sourcing171
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Sourcing173
2.19 Project Schedule: Sourcing175
2.20 Cost Management Plan: Sourcing177
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Sourcing179
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Sourcing181
2.23 Cost Baseline: Sourcing183
2.24 Quality Management Plan: Sourcing185
2.25 Quality Metrics: Sourcing187
2.26 Process Improvement Plan: Sourcing189
2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Sourcing191
2.28 Roles and Responsibilities: Sourcing193
2.29 Human Resource Management Plan: Sourcing195
2.30 Communications Management Plan: Sourcing197
2.31 Risk